Shane Gross

Shane Gross is a professional marine conservation photojournalist based in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan and living for 8 years in The Bahamas he has found his home on Vancouver Island. Shane has photographed everything from massive sharks, whales and crocodiles to tiny seahorses, nudibranchs and tadpoles to charismatic sea lions, manatees and octopus. If it lives underwater, Shane wants to capture that which makes the creature special, and they are all special! Shane also shines a light on human’s impact on the oceans through climate change, ocean acidification, plastic pollution, invasive species, overfishing, habitat destruction and our proclivity to drive species towards extinction.

His images have been seen all over the world in publications like National Geographic, GEO, BBC Wildlife, Smithsonian Magazine, Biographic, and many others. Shane has won countless international photography awards including the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Underwater Photographer of the Year, and Ocean Photographer of the Year. Shane is an Associate Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and has shot assignments for Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, WildAid, the iLCP and others. His first book, Bahamas Underwater, is out now.